Attachment for cigarette packages



Sept. 1, 1931. G. A. GEIB ATTACHMENT FOR CIGARETTE PACKAGES Filed Nov. 18. 1929 Patented Sept. 1, 1931 UNITEDTFSTATES PATENTFOFFICYE GEORGE A. GEIB, or sT. AUL, MnmEsoT ATTACHMENT FOR CIGARETTE rAcK Gns Application filed November 18,1929.- Serial No." 407,808.

It is my object to provide an improved flange. The detent bands 14 are arranged to cigarette case adapted to protect the ciga receive. spring-pressed lugs 16 projecting rettes and facilitate their removal from the from retaining members 17 adapted to emo-riginal packages. A further object is to brace opposite sides of the cigarette packprovide a device of this kind adapted to be age. The members 17 are formed from suitso quickly and easily attached to any of a numable thin metal and have rigid arms 18 exber of standard cigarette packages. tending obliquely downward and connected The invention also includes certain other by a cross member 19. A tongue projects novel features of construction which will be from the members 17 in a plane perpendicumore fullypointed out in the following speclar to the members 19 and 17 said tongue ifieation and claim being rigidly secured to the members 17 to In the accompanying drawings which ilconnect" them in spaced, parallel relation. lustrate the best form of my device at pres- A closure 21 is hingedly connected to. the

ent known to me, Figure 1 is a vertical seccap. 11 and has a skirt or marginal flange tion through the upper partof a cigarette portion 22 extending downward to rest upon y package with my device attached thereto; the arms 18' and member 19 when in closed Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device with position. A .spring pressed lug 23 projects the closure in open position; Fig. 3 is a perfrom the normallylower edge of the closure spective view of the cap member with the 213cc engage in a detentQl which is ofiset out 20 closure in closed position; Fig. 4: is a perspecward from the member 19 to receive said de- 0:, tive view of a separable part of the device tent. I prefer to connect the closure 21 with and Fig. 5 illustrates, somewhat diagramthe cap 11 by a hinge pin 'which passes matically, a standard cigarette package prethrough suitable downwardly pressed ears pared to receive the attachment. formed on the cap 11 and closure 21. A

25 I have used the numeral 6 to indicate one small, coiled spring 26 is wound on the pin 25 To end of a standard cigarette package containand arranged to normally swing the closure ing the cigarettes 7 and of the rectangular 21 to open position, in well known manner, type having a pair of wide, longitudinal when the lug 23 is released from the. de-

sides 8 and relatively narrow sides 9 contig,-, tent 24.,

3o uous t0 the end 6. In preparing the pack- WVhen the device. is to be used the original age to receive my device, a corner is torn package of cigarettes is prepared as described awa as indicated in Fig. 5, including the above and illustrated in Fig. 5, and the cap adjacent parts of the end 6 and side 9 and eX- 11' is separated from the members 17 as tending obliquely across the adjacent corshown in Figs. 3 and 4. The tongue 20 is ners of the sides 8, as indicated by the nunow inserted between the upper ends of the so meral 10. cigarettes 7 and end G'ofthe package and An end cap 11, preferably constructed the cap 11 is'placed upon the exterior of the from suitable thin metal, is formed at opend 6 with'the member 19 and flange 13 eX-.

'posite sides with pendant flanges 12 connecttending upon opposite sides Set the package.

40 ed by a flange 13. The flanges 12 and 13 are Fastening of the device to the package is com- S adapted to extend respectively upon the expleted by merely springing the lugs-16 interior of the sides 8 and one of the sides 9 of ward while passing them between the detents the cigarette package. Ofli'set from the plane 14land then releasing the lugs so that they of each of the flanges 12 is a detent band 14 spring outward and positively connect the extending transversely to a slot 15 in said flanges 12 with the members 17 The closure 21 may be closed and retained in closed position by springing the lug 23 into engagement with the detent 24. When it is desired to remove the cigarettes, the lug 24 is merely pressed inward out of engagement with the detent 24 so that the spring 26 snaps the closure to open position shown in Fig. 2. Now the cigarettes 7 may be readily grasped and removed.

Ready removal of the cigarettes is greatly facilitated by my arrangement of the opening which extends downward a substantial distance from the end of the package so-that the cigarettes normally project from the opening when the closure is open. Accidental tearing of the package is guarded against by my arangement of the arms 18 and member 19 which confine and protect the torn edges of the package. When in use, the ton ue 20 extending beneath the end 6 of the package prevents longitudinal withdrawal of the device from the package and the flanges 1:2 and 13 and members 17 18 and 19 completely embrace the sides so that accidental, lateral removal is prevented. All unnecessary :handling of the cigarettes is obviated by retaining them in the original package and it will be evident that this package is protected and rendered more durable by partially encasing it in the metal cap and closure with side flanges extending entirely around the torn end of the package.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire :to protect by LettersPatent is:

1. An "attachment for a cigarette package comprising, a cap member having van end panel and flanges extending on the exterior of sides of said package, a movable closure connected to said cap member and having a pendant portion extending downward upon the exterior of the package, a protective member embracing the package at its junction with said closure and means for detachmhly connecting :said protective member and on p to *retaintthe package in engagement with said flanges.

'2. An attachment for a cigarette package comprising, a cap member having an end panel and .zfianges extending on the exterior of three sides of said package, a hinged closure connected to said cap member and having a pendant portion extending downward upon the exterior of three sides of the K package and means for securing said cap to the package comprising a member ofl'set doWn-ward'from the end of the package todetachably engage it, oblique arms detachably connecting said last mentioned member to said flanges and a tongue projectingfrom said arms to confine the end of the package between said end panel and tongue.

3. An attachment (for a cigarette package comprising, a cap member having an end panel extending on an end of the package and flanges extending on the exterior of a plurality of sides of said package, a movenonen A. earn. 

